CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has paused all Johnson & Johnson vaccine administration according to the recommendation Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. Clinics scheduled to use the Johnson & Johnson ...
By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made an impassioned plea to Americans Monday not to let their guard down in the fight against COVID-19, saying she has a recurring feeling "of impending doom." President Joe Biden ...
The state of West Virginia reached another positive milestone in its COVID-19 vaccination efforts. There are now more than 300,000 people in West Virginia who are fully vaccinated from the virus, according to the Department of Health and Human Resources. The DHHR website said Sunday morning ...
Stymied by delayed census data needed for redistricting, some states are considering postponing their 2022 primaries or turning to other population estimates to start the once-a-decade task of redrawing voting districts used for U.S. House and state legislative elections. The U.S. Census ...
The Rev. Darrell Cummings, pastor of Bethlehem Apostolic Temple in North Wheeling, received help Saturday from local residents during the annual “Stuff the Bus” event in the church’s parking lot along North Main Street in Wheeling. The proceeds will assist those less fortunate this Easter ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Bill Griffin waited more than a year for this moment: Newly vaccinated, he embraced his 3-year-old granddaughter for the first time since the pandemic began. “She came running right over. I picked her up and gave her a hug. It was amazing,” the 70-year-old said ...
WHEELING — Kathleen Dieffenbaugher will jokingly refer to herself, her husband and her three children as “The First Family of COVID” in Ohio County. She appreciates that she can have a sense of humor about it now. It wasn’t always all laughs last March when they literally lived up to ...
CHARLESTON — With nearly three months left in the school year, Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday the color-coded map used to determine whether to close schools for in-person learning is going away. “We’re going to stop using our color-code system for high schools in West Virginia,” ...
MOUNDSVILLE — As vaccine eligibility opened to more and more people over the last few weeks, more people have taken to scheduling their own appointments to get the shot. While local health officers are on board with people taking matters into their own hands, one said it has turned the ...
CHARLESTON – With nearly three months left in the school year, Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday that the color-coded map used to determine whether to close schools for in-person learning is going away. “We’re going to stop using our color-code system for high schools in West ...
CHARLESTON — As active cases begin increasing again in West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday that all residents ages 16 and older can now get in line for a COVID-19 vaccine, though focus remains on older residents. “Let’s go, West Virginia, and let’s get everybody in this ...
WHEELING — Though the number of people eligible to get the vaccine skyrocketed Monday, and while the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department and its partners are ready and able to meet the demand, the sticking point for vaccine delivery remains supply-side. Health Administrator Howard Gamble ...
CHARLESTON — Democratic leaders of the West Virginia Legislature expressed their frustrations Monday after the revelation that a Republican committee chairman and member of the House of Delegates has COVID-19. Senate Minority Leader Stephen Baldwin, D-Greenbrier, and House Minority Leader ...
CHARLESTON – As active cases begin to increase again in West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday that all residents age 16 and older can now get in line for a COVID-19 vaccine, though focus remains on older residents. “Let’s go, West Virginia, and let’s get everybody in this ...
Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better. A surprising new analysis found that states such as South Carolina, Florida and Missouri that raced ...
WHEELING — West Virginia’s monthly allocations of municipal reimbursements through federal CARES Act funding have come to an end. Yet millions more in direct federal funding through the American Rescue Plan is expected to be on the way soon. Since the beginning of the pandemic one year ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s county and municipal governments are set to receive a historic amount of federal funding in the latest COVID-19 relief package and the State Auditor’s Office wants to help make sure those dollars are tracked and appropriately spent. “It’s going to create ...
CHARLESTON (AP) — A member of the West Virginia House of Delegates has contracted the coronavirus and is under quarantine, a House leader said. Raleigh County Republican Brandon Steele tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, House Majority leader Amy Summers said in a statement. Steele ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The mood is so bad at the U.S. Capitol that a Democratic congressman recently let an elevator pass him by rather than ride with Republican colleagues who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election. Republicans say it’s Democrats who just need to get over it — move ...
GLEN DALE — Sometime in late February, Dr. Neal Aulick walked through the emergency room without gloves — for the first time since March 2020. And, lately — on the still-rare occasions in which a parent is willing to brave COVID-19 in order to get emergency care for a very sick child — ...
